Chen Lin had another reason for refusing to give up the Golden Fire Generating Thunder Technique: his main cultivation technique required him to repeatedly undergo lightning tribulations. Those tribulations could temper thunder-attribute spiritual objects, allowing them to fuse more perfectly with him while also strengthening his pseudo thunder spiritual root.
The dharmic formula also stated that, after enough baptisms by lightning tribulation, there was a slim chance of shedding the false and attaining the true, transforming it into a genuine lightning spiritual root.
A cultivator's spiritual roots were the foundation of everything. How much they could achieve was intimately tied to the quality of those roots.
With his quad-spiritual root aptitude, he had needed twelve Foundation Establishment Pills to successfully reach Foundation Establishment. His chances of advancing to the Golden Core Stage through normal means were vanishingly small.
A lightning spiritual root was a special spiritual root that greatly enhanced cultivation. If he could form one, his hopes of Core Formation would improve. No matter how difficult it proved, he had to try.
In the days that followed, Chen Lin began searching for thunder-attribute spiritual objects.
But he soon discovered that even this first hurdle was almost impossible to clear.
Spiritual objects of any kind were exceedingly rare, let alone spiritual objects of the rarest Lightning Attribute. He could not find even a scrap of relevant information.
Another month passed.
Chen Lin's burning enthusiasm gradually cooled. He stopped wasting his precious time on the search and focused on cultivating instead.
Yet just as he gave up, an opportunity came knocking on its own.
"Who did you say was looking for me?"
Chen Lin looked at his assistant, surprise showing on his face.
His assistant was named He Yuqing, an eighteen-year-old slip of a girl whose cultivation was only at Qi